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Post by rick on Aug 24, 2012 14:01:21 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 24, 2012 16:12:44 GMT -5
Can't wait to hear it. Even a song written by Larry Gatlin is included!
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Post by rick on Aug 28, 2012 23:04:11 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Aug 29, 2012 2:38:35 GMT -5
Not liking this track - lovely song but she over-enunciates the words and the melody is all over the place ... Or maybe I'm just getting harder to please?!
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Post by rick on Aug 29, 2012 2:56:44 GMT -5
Not liking this track - lovely song but she over-enunciates the words and the melody is all over the place ... Or maybe I'm just getting harder to please?! fabby, i know this is a Linda Ronstadt Forum, but there are those of us who do like Streisand. My two favorite singers of all time are Barbra Streisand and Linda Ronstadt. This is the first track I have heard off this collection of previously released material (although i have bootlegs of a few of the tracks). I actually enjoy her version here. To me, Barbra's was at its peak in the early to mid-70s. It just seemed as though she could do anything with her voice effortlessly. For me, it's nice to hear an unheard song with that quality in her voice/singing. She's not going to sing it the same way that a Mary Travers would have sung it. |
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Post by fabtastique on Aug 29, 2012 6:44:14 GMT -5
I am a big Barbra fan - I am heading off to Brooklyn from London to see one of her October shows.
I just don't think this is a good vocal by her, and not really tempting as a "single" release.
I am very much looking forward to this set, but there are more tracks I was hoping would be on this CD but aren't. Supposedly there are more to come ... I hope so!
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Post by rick on Aug 29, 2012 11:56:03 GMT -5
I am a big Barbra fan - I am heading off to Brooklyn from London to see one of her October shows. That's great, Fab! I am envious of you going. Last time I saw her was on the tour in 2006 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. As I've written in threads about Linda's unreleased recordings, there are artists like Judy Garland who have been gone for decades and they are just now putting out unreleased material. At least Streisand is releasing stuff. As i said, I have bootlegs of a couple of the tracks on "Release Me," but am anxious to hear the cleaned-up tracks. One of the songs she is reported to have recorded that has yet to be released is Laura Nyro's "He's a Runner." If I had to guess, it was probably meant for either "Stoney End" or "Barbra Joan Streisand." There is a rehearsal quality to the Randy Newman-accompanied "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" that makes it seem a little unpolished. But I am grateful to hear anything from that period when she could do anything with her voice. I will be a bad Barbra queen and admit that as much as I love her, the last two albums, "Love Is the Answer" and "What Matters Most," are not ones that I return to over and over again the way I do to so many of her others. But I still get excited hearing her voice. Just as I do with Linda's. |
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Post by fabtastique on Aug 30, 2012 3:17:07 GMT -5
Ok so it's growing on me, her vocal is beautiful but the melody is all over the place - she seems to be changing it and I'm not sure it suits the song. However this is a rehearsal track and a work in progress as Babs would say herself! Lovely to hear it.
Have you heard Make Our Garden Grow - this, in my opinion, is the vocal performance of her career and I'm so disappointed this track isn't on this CD. I was hoping for a top quality version if this to blow the roof off my house.
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Post by rick on Aug 30, 2012 11:36:57 GMT -5
Ok so it's growing on me, her vocal is beautiful but the melody is all over the place - she seems to be changing it and I'm not sure it suits the song. However this is a rehearsal track and a work in progress as Babs would say herself! Lovely to hear it. Have you heard Make Our Garden Grow - this, in my opinion, is the vocal performance of her career and I'm so disappointed this track isn't on this CD. I was hoping for a top quality version if this to blow the roof off my house. Hi, fab. Yes, I heard both heard and seen "Make Our Garden Grow." Probably back in the mid-90s, I got the video footage of those Rupert Holmes-produced "Back to Broadway" sessions that didn't wind up as the eventual album. The first song from those sessions to be released was "Warm All Over" on the "Just for the Record" boxed set. Yes, I love her "Make Our Garden Grow" from "Candide." However, I think that her medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra"/"Heather on the Hill" is gorgeous. Simply Streisand, so to speak. The other songs that are on the video are different takes of these and "On My Own" from "Les Miserables" (another version of which wound up on her "Till I Loved You" album), "Moonfall" from "Drood" and "A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Love," which is from "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," but was not a song that Streisand sang in the original production. It's a fun song to hear her do in her (gulp) later years. It's funny now to think of the late 80s as late Streisand. I am sure eventually these will see the light of the day. Am hoping that "Release Me" will become something that Sony does more often with her material. Maybe a "Release Me, Too"? What I am anxious about seeing is what is going to be on the 12-DVD (!) retrospective set of her career timed with her 50th anniversary with Columbia Records. As you know, at the time of "Just for the Record," a four-hour video was made but not released. Have you seen it? Mine has the editor's timing track on it, but it is still a great thing to have. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 10, 2012 13:18:46 GMT -5
I've heard "I Think It's Going To Rain Today", "Being Good Isn't Good Enough" and "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" off Release Me - just lovely. It's strange hearing a song recorded in the 70s for the first time. The latter two are 85 to 92 I think, still in amazing, powerful voice.
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Post by rick on Sept 10, 2012 22:18:51 GMT -5
I've heard "I Think It's Going To Rain Today", "Being Good Isn't Good Enough" and "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" off Release Me - just lovely. It's strange hearing a song recorded in the 70s for the first time. The latter two are 85 to 92 I think, still in amazing, powerful voice. Hi, Fab -- Thanks for your latest post. I'm very anxious to hear Barbra's take on "Being Good Isn't Good Enough" from Jule Styne's "Hallelujah, Baby!" Yes, it was recorded for 1985's "The Broadway Album." "How Are Things in GloccaMorra"/"Heather on the Hill" were recorded during Barbra's sessions with Rupert Holmes during 1988 when she first started work on a sequel to "The Broadway Album." Those sessions were the first for "Back to Broadway," but, ultimately, Barbra did not use the sessions and then decided to go with David Foster for that 1993 album. As I believe wrote above, the sessions in 1988 with Rupert Holmes included "GloccaMorra," as well as "Warm All Over," which wound up on the "Just for the Record" boxed set, and also a version of "All I Ask of You" from "Phantom" that was not used for Streisand's 1989 release "Till I Loved You," and also, "Moonfall" from Rupert Holmes' "Drood," "A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Love" From "I Can Get It For You Wholesale," "On My Own" from "Les Miserables," and "Make Our Garden Grow" from "Candide." Fab, I am not sure if you are aware of this but beginning Sept. 20 QVC is going to be selling an expanded edition, likely with at least one bonus track. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 15, 2012 19:09:59 GMT -5
QVC edition has bonus DVD of track by track commentary (newly recorded ) and some archival footage. Only 13 mins long so hardly in depth but I have a friend getting one for me!
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Post by rick on Sept 16, 2012 23:18:25 GMT -5
QVC edition has bonus DVD of track by track commentary (newly recorded ) and some archival footage. Only 13 mins long so hardly in depth but I have a friend getting one for me! Hi, Fab -- Glad that you are going to have a friend getting you one of the QVC packages with DVD. Here is an article about it -- broadwayworld.com/article/Exclusive-First-Look-at-Cover-Art-Details-for-Barbra-Streisands-New-RELEASE-ME-QVC-Bonus-DVD-20120914#ixzz26TCZnZyh Guess you probably saw that she announced more dates and that her tour will conclude here in Los Angeles at The Hollywood Bowl on Friday, November 9. I am excited and planning to go. Glad you are getting to go see here, too. I think the Brooklyn show will be very special. I hope they film it for release. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 18, 2012 8:50:54 GMT -5
I hope so. I saw her in 94 in London then also in Detroit later that year but nothing recently.
Hope this will be good!
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Post by rick on Sept 18, 2012 17:42:47 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Sept 21, 2012 13:12:33 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 21, 2012 20:49:42 GMT -5
Wow...even better than Larry's version! |
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Post by rick on Oct 16, 2012 12:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Oct 16, 2012 14:15:32 GMT -5
This blog also has some great things to say about Linda in their reviews of What's New (gold disc) and a 2-disc UK compilation, even questioning the RRHoF's continued obliviousness to her.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 16, 2012 14:36:13 GMT -5
This blog also has some great things to say about Linda in their reviews of What's New (gold disc) and a 2-disc UK compilation, even questioning the RRHoF's continued obliviousness to her. Streisand bloggers are my kind of people. I wonder what Barbra and Linda think of each other. Different worlds I know but at least politically they are kindred spirits. |
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Post by rick on Oct 18, 2012 15:40:25 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 18, 2012 16:58:41 GMT -5
Wow! But nothing about our screwy political system? Maybe not because she is out of the country. |
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 22, 2012 10:54:41 GMT -5
concert in Brooklyn - Babs was in great voice and I got a 2nd row ticket (including a brief backstage meet and greet!) not like the one with Linda - Babs walked in said hello, posed for three pics and I managed to shake her hand before she left - 1 minute in the room  |
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Post by terryarceneaux on Oct 23, 2012 21:00:32 GMT -5
Has ( Linda and Barbra ) performed together.
Just a question
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Post by Dianna on Oct 23, 2012 21:59:34 GMT -5
Has ( Linda and Barbra ) performed together. Just a question I don't think so, Terry. But wouldn't that be some great singing? |
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Post by Dianna on Oct 23, 2012 22:01:13 GMT -5
concert in Brooklyn - Babs was in great voice and I got a 2nd row ticket (including a brief backstage meet and greet!) not like the one with Linda - Babs walked in said hello, posed for three pics and I managed to shake her hand before she left - 1 minute in the room Curious, how was she in person Fab? I've seen her in interviews and she seems kind of soft spoken or very composed. |
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Post by rick on Oct 23, 2012 23:56:56 GMT -5
Curious, how was she in person Fab? I've seen her in interviews and she seems kind of soft spoken or very composed. dianna, i know you asked Fab this question, but here is a story from Tuesday's New York Times talking about the staying power of both Barbra Streisand and Barbara Cook, two of my favorite singers (hmm, who could be the third?) www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/arts/music/barbara-cook-and-barbra-streisand-sing-on.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 Although I have been a fan of Streisand's since the 1960s, the first time I saw her perform live was in 1992 at AIDS Project Los Angeles' Commitment to Life where she sang "Somewhere" and a duet with Johnny Mathis on "One Hand, One Heart"/"I Have a Love" from "West Side Story." Then, in 1994, I saw her at The Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, a performance that became an HBO special and a DVD. I celebrated the turn of the Millennium on both Dec, 31, 1999, and Jan. 1, 2000, in Las Vegas seeing Barbra's "Timeless" concert at the MGM Grand. The last time I saw her was at Los Angeles' Staples Center in 2006. Of course, she is very different from Linda. If Linda were still performing, I would continue to see her perform. I am grateful that Streisand does still perform. Do I expect her to be in the same voice as she was when I saw her 20 years ago? No. Do I know that she will put on a great show and knows how to put over a song? Yes. From what I have read (and posted from reviews in other cities) the tour has gotten better in each successive city. However, I am sure that there was an excitement at the Brooklyn dates since that was a homecoming for her. Streisand's tour, as of now, will conclude here in L.A. at The Hollywood Bowl on Friday, Nov. 9 and Sunday, Nov. 11. Here is the review from Tuesday night's show in Toronto -- www.thestar.com/entertainment/onstage/article/1276337--streisand-delivers-powerful-soulful-performance-at-acc |
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 24, 2012 9:51:45 GMT -5
I sure hope that a video comes out of this tour. Who knows when she will retire again? (and again) (and again) |
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Post by rick on Oct 24, 2012 14:49:27 GMT -5
I sure hope that a video comes out of this tour. Who knows when she will retire again? (and again) (and again) Rob, I am sure that there will be a DVD of this concert, am guessing from Brooklyn, since the tour is titled, "Back to Brooklyn." Just received email confirmation that I was able to obtain house seats for the Hollywood Bowl date on Friday, Nov. 9. Yay! As for "retiring," that is a bit of a canard. In late 1999, she gave an interview in which, as we all do, she was speaking out loud, and said something like, "maybe perhaps I am moving toward retirement." And then the media (Rob, are you familiar with how the media sometimes blows things out of proportion and context) turned that into something definitive. Every time she goes out she wonders if she will want to do it again. It's hard work. She is performing something like 24-26 songs over three hours. But, she says, she gets drawn back. I wish Linda would be so inclined, too. |
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Post by erik on Oct 24, 2012 17:25:07 GMT -5
Quote by rick re. Barbra Streisand + Linda:
Babs often seems to be much more fired up by the idea of performing than Linda does, not that I think she's a stage ham or someone starving for attention (like Madonna or Lady Gaga), and the press eats it up. The sad thing, though, is that I just don't think the media would care if Linda never appears in public again for whatever reason.
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